Halictus rhynchites Morawitz, 1876

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2020, The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko, ZooKeys 994, pp. 35-104 : 35

31. Halictus rhynchites Morawitz, 1876 Figure 26

Halictus rhynchites Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key to females), 220 (key to males), 222, ♀, ♂.

Type locality.

Shakhimardan (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Usbekistan: Khodzha-Chiburgan gorge, near Shakhimardan Usbekistan]; Kyrgyzstan: Alay, Kichi-alay.

Lectotype (designated here).

♂, 7.[VII.1871] // Шагимарданъ [Shakhimardan in the Uzbek enclave in the territory of Kyrgyzstan, Alai Ridge, 39°58'N, 71°47'E] // [N]334 // Lectotypus Halictus rhynchites Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(8 ♀, 5 ♂). 1 ♂, the same label as in a lectotype // Halictus rhynchites Mor., [N]334 [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, 2 ♂, 26.[VI.1871] // Чибурганъ [Chiburgan] // [N]334; 1 ♀, 21.[VI.1871] // Чибурганъ [Chiburgan] // [N]334; 2 ♀, 28.[VII.1871] // Кичи-Алай [Kichi-Alay] // [N]334 [ZMMU]; 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Чибурганъ [Chiburgan] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // rhynchites F. Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♂, Кчи-Алай [Kchi-Alay] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // rhynchites F. Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, <golden circle> // 22.[VII.1871] // Алай [Alay] // rhynchites Mor., Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, 22.[VII.1871] // Алай [Alay] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Halictus rhynchites Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Halictus rhynchites Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) rhynchites (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982: 81) is invalid because he labelled neither of the two females from “Shakhimardan” deposited in ZMMU.

Distribution.

Turkey, Afghanistan, southern Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan ( Ebmer 1995, Murao et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 26. Halictus rhynchites Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, male A habitus, lateral view and labels B metasoma, dorsal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D antenna. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B-D).